Poetry. NEXT TO NOTHING: MELBOURNE 2009-2016 is a new collection by fine press printer and poet Alan Loney. The poem, assembled against the dissolutions of time, contains "a welter of relation & reson
Literary Nonfiction. Beginning is impossible. To imagine a new work is to know that it is impossible to begin. I cannot think of origins. They are too far back. They are far too close. One is not only
is it possible, that this place, not 'the land of my birth' is where I might truly come to be 'at home' * Melbourne Journal: Notebooks 1998-2003 is the third instalment in Alan Loney's notebooks, cove
Poetry. "Loney is an 'early conceptualist'. CRANKHANDLE is a conceptually thick book, a book of thought, or as Frost might say, a book of 'thinks', that challenges writing's potential triviality on a
An important collection by one of the leading contemporary New Zealand poets. The poems are kind of a diary, fragmentary and open, recording a mind thinking about language and the world.
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. Typography. Foreword by Jenni Quilter. Of Loney's long-anticipated collection of essays, Johanna Drucker has written: "Few people have mused with s
